{"id":865,"date":"2022-06-08T03:31:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T07:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminallawyer.net\/?p=865"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:27:55","slug":"supreme-court-discusses-criminal-convictions-in-the-context-of-the-career-criminal-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/supreme-court-discusses-criminal-convictions-in-the-context-of-the-career-criminal-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Discusses Criminal Convictions in the Context of the Career Criminal Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generally, people who are considered career criminals face greater penalties than those with no criminal history. As such, if a person who has multiple prior convictions is found guilty of another offense, they may be subject to sentencing enhancements. While generally, crimes are discrete acts, a person can be charged with numerous offenses for one criminal enterprise. Crimes committed from a single criminal episode do not trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act (the Act) for sentencing purposes, though, as recently explained by the United States Supreme Court in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/20-5279_09m1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case<\/a> in which the defendant had ten prior robbery convictions stemming from a single incident. If you are charged with robbery or any other violent crime, it is prudent to meet with a St. Petersburg violent crime defense attorney to assess your options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Background of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is alleged that the defendant broke into a storage facility in 1997 and stole from ten separate units. He was subsequently charged with and convicted of ten counts of burglary. In 2014, a police officer entered the defendant\u2019s home and observed the defendant with a rifle in his possession. He was then charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of federal law. The defendant was found guilty and determined to be an armed career criminal under the Act, due to his ten prior robbery convictions. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, after which he appealed. The appellate court affirmed his sentence, and he filed a writ of certiorari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Criminal Convictions in the Context of the Career Criminal Act<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The issue the Supreme Court addressed was whether crimes that are committed sequentially as part of a single event occur on different occasions for purposes of imposing a sentence enhancement under the Act. The Court ruled that they did not, and reversed the lower court ruling. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/supreme-court-discusses-criminal-convictions-in-the-context-of-the-career-criminal-act\/#more-865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, people who are considered career criminals face greater penalties than those with no criminal history. As such, if a person who has multiple prior convictions is found guilty of another offense, they may be subject to sentencing enhancements. 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